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The white hat hacker who compromised crypto exchange Binance Jersey's domain name and Twitter account will be compensated for cooperation.
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance will compensate the white hat hacker who compromised Binance Jerseyâs Internet domain name and Twitter account.
Binance Jersey Twitter and domain compromised
In a post published on Aug. 16, crypto exchange Binance Jersey announced that a white hat hacker was able to gain access to the @BinanceJE Twitter account (the official Binance Jersey profile) and the platformâs Internet domain name. Still, the company was able to recover the domain name within a few minutes, and the Twitter handle in some hours.
Per the announcement, the hacker obtained access âby social engineering the email domain name service provider,â and then posted a few tweets from the companyâs official account, deleting them later. Furthermore, the hacker was reportedly cooperative and open during his communication with the exchangeâs security team, which allowed for the quick recovery of the Twitter account. The firm notes:
âWe were able to restore the domain name within a few minutes and the Twitter handle a couple of hours later. We will issue a security bug bounty to the white hat hacker, as well as investigate the incident further with our service provider. [...] All funds on Binance.JE are safe. No data was compromised.â
Screenshot of one of the tweets | Telegram channel Diddycarter's ANN Channel
In one of the tweets from another account, reportedly controlled by the same hacker, they asked Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao to contact them personally. At press time, all of the hackerâs tweets have been deleted from Binance Jerseyâs Twitter profile.
As Cointelegraph recently reported, the native token of crypto exchange Binance soared around 11%, despite the fresh rumors of a possible Know Your Customer data leak affecting exchangeâs users.
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